When the poet voiced the sentiment,
"Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us!"
he expressed doubt that one sees him self as he really is. Looking deeply into the human heart, each one may find there a great longing to glimpse a truer concept of one's self, and that longing may expand to include a truer concept of others. To a desire so universal, so good, and so pure, there must be response from the infallible source of true being.